Safety Awareness For Empowerment (SAFE): An RCT With Young People Experiencing Homelessness

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Conditions studied: Substance Use, Victimization

In brief

The SAFE study examines the effects of brief mindfulness-based cognitive-behavioral intervention aimed at improving risk-related attention skills (risk detection, problem solving, assertiveness, and help seeking) in order to reduce substance use and victimization among young people (ages 18-21) experiencing homelessness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04183400

Run by

University of Denver

People needed

244

Starts

2015-09-01

Expected to finish

2020-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2020-09-28

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 21. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Reside at the partnering community based youth shelter

You may not qualify if…

• As measured by the KSADS (a semi-structured diagnostic interview administered by trained interviewers at baseline):
• presence of psychotic symptoms;
• presence of a life-threatening medical/chronic neurological illness that would prevent participation in a 4-day intervention and/or assessments;
• suicide attempt in last 6 months without current enrollment in therapy or related services to address;
• chronic self-injurious behavior/cutting without current enrollment in therapy or related services to address
• hospitalization or residential treatment for psychiatric reasons in last 6 months without current enrollment in therapy or related services to address.

Where it is running

• Urban Peak Shelter and University of Denver — Denver, Colorado, United States

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